Theodor Fontane: Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age

by Brian Tucker

Book Overview

What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane's works, this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light, the novels...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501368354
• ISBN13: 9781501368356
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"